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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914

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This masterful collection of seventeen classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction.

Today, the figure of Sherlock Holmes towers over detective fiction like a colossus-but it was not always so. Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin, the hero of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," anticipated Holmes' deductive reasoning by more than forty years. In A Study in Scarlet, the first of Holmes' adventures, Doyle acknowledged his debt to Poe-and to Émile...